Christopher Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham
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Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham DSO
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(6 May 1896 – 5 May 1972), was a career officer of the
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and an English peer, with a seat from 1936 in the
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, where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the Earl of Drogheda and then to Lord Merthyr as Chairman of Committees.


Career

The elder son of
Henry Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron Teynham Henry John Philip Sidney Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron of Teynham, was an English soldier and businessman. He studied at Eton College, and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. History Henry Roper-Curzon was born on the 27 May 1867 and died ...
, by his marriage to Mabel Wilkinson, Roper-Curzon was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He saw active service during the World War I, First World War, winning both the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Order, serving with the Grand Fleet as Staff Signal Officer on HMS Minotaur (1906), HMS ''Minotaur''. In 1936 he succeeded his father as Baron Teynham, Lord Teynham. During the World War II, Second World War he was Naval Control Service Officer for the Port of London, after which he commanded ships, including Depot ship#Minesweeper depot ships, HMS ''Ambitious'' (F169) on minesweeping duties for the invasion of Europe in 1944. He retired from the navy after the war with the rank of Captain (Royal Navy), Captain.Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), pp. 3880–3881 In the
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, Teynham served as a Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1946 to 1959, and when the House of Lords Yacht Club was established in 1949, he was its first vice-commodore. Outside parliament he was a Younger Brother of Trinity House, a member of the Council of the Navy League of Great Britain, Navy League, a Governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a director of Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Grayson Rollo and Clover Docks, Ltd., Coast Lines, Coast Lines Ltd, and other companies.


Personal life

On 19 October 1927, Roper-Curzon married Elspeth Grace Whitaker (died 1976), a daughter of William Ingham Whitaker by his marriage to Hilda Guilhermina Dundas. They had two sons, John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, 20th Baron Teynham, Lord John Christopher Ingham Roper-Curzon, later Baron Teynham, 20th Baron Teynham (born 1928) and Michael Henry (born 1931), and were divorced in 1955. On 11 February 1955 he married secondly Anne Rita (1923-2007), a daughter of Captain L. C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe and a granddaughter of Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Assheton Curzon-Howe, Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe. They had two daughters, Henrietta Margaret Fleur, born in 1955, and Holly Anne-Marie, 1963.


Modern house

In 1788, Baron Teynham, Henry Francis Roper, the 14th Baron of Teynham inherited his cousin's John Barnewall Curzon's wealth and estate at Water Perry, Northamptonshire when he died. Henry legally added his name to his by Royal Licence and became Henry Francis Roper-Curzon.


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